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- Fri Sep 27, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: CAD Agnostic
- Topic: Best software for drawings with numerous constraints
- Replies: 6
- Views: 161
Re: Best software for drawings with numerous constraints
Surely, Inventor is more suitable for 3D, but, as I mentioned, it was my primary CAD system carried from university, where we used it for drawings at the same time. I am seeking for a similar software without problems that are specific to Inventor, like difficulties with handling lots of constraint...
- Fri Sep 27, 2024 10:29 am
- Forum: CAD Agnostic
- Topic: Best software for drawings with numerous constraints
- Replies: 6
- Views: 161
Re: Best software for drawings with numerous constraints
Generally someone eventually is going to introduce you to the concept of best practice. It is probably considered "best practice" to break that sketch up into smaller sections, and allow each section to be somewhat self-contained. Not to say SW or any other software couldn't do it, but peo...
- Tue Sep 24, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Loft function - hull
- Replies: 3
- Views: 175
Re: Loft function - hull
Your sketches are a mess. The first two I checked had extra junk in them. I made some simple clean sketches of my own in your part and the Loft feature worked ok. So I'd suggest fixing your sketches. No gaps. No overlaps. Nothing extra. Lines must be end to end. And I should add that Grabcad and tha...
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: New for SW2025
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1394
Re: New for SW2025
I'm on SW2022. Dwight image.png Awww. I figured it was something like that. I'm not using the "3dx" part at all. In fact, with the Maker version, it essentially saves all your parts as student versions, which can't be opened in the regular version. So I'm being very careful that I don't h...
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: New for SW2025
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1394
- Mon Sep 16, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Need some ideas from the braintrust for a really cool project!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 381
Re: Need some ideas from the braintrust for a really cool project!
Theo Jansen was at SW World one year, and brought a contraption that was a wind powered walker
- Sun Sep 15, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Help meeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 288
Re: Help meeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
Maybe you can use the Windows display settings to turn off a monitor.
- Fri Sep 13, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: New for SW2025
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1394
Re: New for SW2025
Time for an admission. This week for one reason or another I've been using SW for the first time seriously in about 10 years. There are a lot of little things that have been added, but nothing really big. Nothing that really tripped me up. There seem to also be some things missing, but that may just...
- Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: New videos posted
- Replies: 2
- Views: 825
- Fri Sep 06, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Job Listings
- Topic: CAD recruiters and agencies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 714
Re: CAD recruiters and agencies
Not sure what your question is. "People like this" means what? Do you mean recruiters? I don't think there's one central agency you go to for drafters. There are a million agencies. And once you find out who they are, they won't let you forget. A lot of them are from India. You'll find the...
- Mon Aug 26, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: SWPUC34 Has Been Launched
- Replies: 3
- Views: 480
Re: SWPUC34 Has Been Launched
I only have a problem with people who haven't contributed, and you're definitely a contributing member.
- Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: New videos posted
- Replies: 2
- Views: 825
New videos posted
I updated a set of videos for SW users making the switch to SE to include SE 2024 changes. Kind of an embarassing number of exclamation points in the text, but other than that, fun stuff.
- Sat Aug 17, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: What exactly causes references to break?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1240
Re: What exactly causes references to break?
This is something I've run into on most complex projects eventually. Edges will sometimes change types. For example from a circle to an ellipse or ellipse to spline. This can cause the reference to be lost. Also a single edge may turn into multiple edges due to tolerance values in a trim feature. On...
- Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Watta bunch of douchebags......
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2634
Re: Watta bunch of douchebags......
what I meant if a feature does not exist in past version it is not exported. At least this is how it was explainaled to me When was the last time they actually added a feature? I mean one that people use? Really. It's a weak argument obviously decorating over the fact that the "reverse compati...
- Fri Jul 26, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3042
Re: Server unavailable errors
It appears that there was some very minor hacking damage. I was able to replace a couple of damaged files with back up data, and things appear to be back to normal. I'll try to reinstate the Best Answer add in, and see if that was the source or the victim. Just keep reporting any problems.
- Thu Jul 25, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3042
- Wed Jul 24, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3042
Re: Server unavailable errors
If I click on the main link for the "Watercooler Talk" I see the problems in the header. If I click on the link for the latest page, the header looks normal. image.png I see the same behavior out of the "Jokes" thread. Ok, I didn't see the problem, but the watercooler was defini...
- Wed Jul 24, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3042
Re: Server unavailable errors
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- Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3042
Re: Server unavailable errors
On a possibly different note, every time I open the watercooler talk thread, I get these message across the top of the screen: image.png I am using firefox that is managed by IT, so it could be an internal problem, but I wanted to point it out in case it is related. image.png Uhhhhh, are you openin...
- Wed Jul 24, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3042
Re: Server unavailable errors
Whatever it was, it was intermittent and seems to be over now. Might have been a backup or an update being performed. The logs didn't reflect anything recognizable. We've had a fair number of attempted spam registrations, so it might also have been a spike in malicious traffic/DDoS. Nothing appears ...
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Server unavailable errors
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3042
Re: Server unavailable errors
Yeah, something's happening. I'm on it.
- Mon Jul 22, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Can't send Direct Messages
- Replies: 6
- Views: 989
Re: Can't send Direct Messages
I need to post more messages here? I have 63 posts. How can I have some approved? No, I'm sorry. I looked at the number of answers you had rather than the number of posts. Whoever you sent the PM to has not read it. Same situation as Carrie Ives. Try sending an email to the person, or check when th...
- Mon Jul 22, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Can't send Direct Messages
- Replies: 6
- Views: 989
Re: Can't send Direct Messages
Direct messages sit in your outbox until the recipient reads them. This is just a quirk of how the phpbb works. If you have fewer than 3 approved messages posted, you won't be able to send direct messages. So mgibeault , just post a couple more messages that don't look spammy, and you'll be able to ...
- Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: CAD Agnostic
- Topic: Industrial Design => engineering Workflow
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2486
- Fri Jul 19, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: PLM options for SolidWorks?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2575
Re: PLM options for SolidWorks?
This is old news, but in a previous life I used something called ProductCenter. https://essigplm.com/products/productcenter/ This has gone through multiple owners over the years. What I liked most about the company and the product was that they used their own software to manage their business, and t...
- Fri Jul 19, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: CAD Agnostic
- Topic: Industrial Design => engineering Workflow
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2486
Industrial Design => engineering Workflow
When your project needs ID type work, how do you handle it? Does the ID come from another software like Rhino or Shapr3D or Illustrator, or do you do it directly in your engineering CAD tool? And when you get ID data from some non-engineering software source, do you just work with the imported data ...
- Mon Jul 15, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Mass vs. weight
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2057
Re: Mass vs. weight
No, you're not missing anything. SW is playing fast and loose with the definition of weight. They are assuming weight at average sea level on Earth. If you need something more accurate or for a different "locale", I'd work in metric and then calculate actual/local weight later when you nee...
- Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: Catia and 3DX
- Topic: Experience with 3DExperience
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2038
Re: Experience with 3DExperience
@matt, Do you have any other version of SWX installed on that same computer? I think the Maker version cannot be installed on a computer with any other version of SWX. No, I have not had my commercial license of SW actually installed on my work machine for some time now. I still own one, but it isn...
- Thu Jul 11, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Catia and 3DX
- Topic: Experience with 3DExperience
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2038
Re: Experience with 3DExperience
Ok, spacemouse busted for this version.
http://3dconnexion.com/uk/drivers
Maybe AI could get a PHBB forum fact checker. Seems a big need for that sort of thing.
Fortunately there's a fix... Maybe AI could get a PHBB forum fact checker. Seems a big need for that sort of thing.
- Thu Jul 11, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: Catia and 3DX
- Topic: Experience with 3DExperience
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2038
Experience with 3DExperience
For one reason or another, I just bought the Maker version. It was stupid cheap - $38. If nothing else, I can get a couple of blog or forum posts out of it and feel like I haven't completely wasted my money. The first thing I get is this: image.png Figuring out what to do was not entirely straight f...
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: How to create INDENTED FINGER GRIPS (TTT Video Tutorial)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 554
Re: How to create INDENTED FINGER GRIPS (TTT Video Tutorial)
These techniques have existed for decades. https://dezignstuff.com/yall-have-a-handle-on-this-handle-challenge/ https://episodes.dezignstuff.com/blog/1-4-12-working-from-industrial-design-sketches/ https://dezignstuff.com/project-examples/medical-devices/ https://episodes.dezignstuff.com/blog/brep-a...
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: why won't it cut in the direction I'm telling it to?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1016
Re: why won't it cut in the direction I'm telling it to?
It's hard to see what you're trying to do, but it looks like the sketch projects outside of the bounds of the face, which SW is going to respond badly to. I personally would try to just select the faces of the rib and use Delete Face. You're trying to get rid of the rib, right?
- Wed Jun 26, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: What's wrong with my Lofting?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 950
Re: What's wrong with my Lofting?
It looks like you're trying to move from too much of the small end to the large end. You should be using at most 1/2 of the small end. Plus, you're definitely trying to loft too much at once. A loft should be a single smooth feature. The big squarish end should be an extrude. The loft should be from...
- Tue Jun 25, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Small Business PLM - Zel X
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1759
Re: Small Business PLM - Zel X
Thanks for asking the question, that led me to research a little. When I first put a Solid Edge file in, it went in as a *.par file - Solid Edge format. But when I edited it inside of Zel X, it was converted to an NX file - *.prt. The edits happened in a way that looks like a synchronous edit. Then ...
- Tue Jun 25, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Small Business PLM - Zel X
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1759
Small Business PLM - Zel X
Siemens recently released what is a bit of a revolution for small businesses in design and manufacturing. They took big-time PLM functions, slimmed them down a little, bundled them on the cloud, and are now offering it as a kind of mid-range PLM platform. It has slimmed down NX, Xcelerator Share, CA...
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: Added a Shapr3D Forum
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1815
Added a Shapr3D Forum
Due to the amount of traffic asking specifically about Shapr3D, I've added a new forum dedicated to that software, and moved some of the existing topics from other places to that forum.
- Wed Jun 05, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: How to accept failed feature; setting?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2060
Re: How to accept failed feature; setting?
I requested this enhancement many times in the past, which might be why it never made it into the software. Complex fillets, lofts, take a lot of clicks to set up. And when they don't work, it becomes a research project. Failed features would also be helpful for macros. SolidWorks users have always ...
Re: Shapr 3D
Someone other than my mother saw those? Interesting. Anyway, for certain makers it can be a useful tool. More than that, I think elements of the interface might be influential on professional cad products. I also think they made a big mistake adding history. Their schtick was simplicity. They did a ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Solid Edge
- Topic: Does anyone effectively use FOA in SE?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1808
Re: Does anyone effectively use FOA in SE?
What's the problem? Is there something specific?
- Mon May 13, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Challenging geometry problem
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2895
Re: Challenging geometry problem
Yeah, the swept solid cut sounds right. You may have to use a straight line for the path and the helix centerred on the line as a guide curve to get it to twist correctly.
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: What's Wrong?
- Topic: Negative Like
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1357
Re: Negative Like
When it removes a like it's usually that it thinks you have liked it before and you're just undoing that like. Or maybe it was confused. Or maybe I got that plugin from DS?
- Mon May 06, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: In-Context relationships, intermittently, losing association.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3346
Re: In-Context relationships, intermittently, losing association.
The problem I saw was that the internal names of edges would get changed due to changes in the model - sometimes seemingly unrelated. Sometimes it's just the edge projection type that changes, not the name. For example, if you have an edge between two cylindrical faces, that edge could project as a ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Turning a complex part into one solid body for mold making
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1447
Re: Turning a complex part into one solid body for mold making
This is likely a casting. You may have to use a lost wax process. There are processes where you don't need draft (processes where you're going to destroy/not reuse the cast and cores for each part). In these cases, you don't need to design the cast/mold. You'd just build an original part (plus shrin...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: SW Winglet
- Replies: 2
- Views: 993
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: General Biz and Announcements
- Topic: Trouble Creating Account
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1672
Trouble Creating Account
If you have had trouble creating a new account, try it again, and make it more obvious that you're a real CAD user. We get inundated here with scam/spam accounts, and I delete many of these each week. When I slack up on them, we get spammed. So I'm sorry if I now and then delete a legitimate account...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Standard Parts Library: Configurations or Individual Parts?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6725
Re: Standard Parts Library: Configurations or Individual Parts?
This is one area where Solid Edge is definitely a better tool. Solid Edge "Family of Parts" is like configurations, except all of the configs are separate files. You can manage them all from a single place. So you get the convenience of SW Configs with the stability of individual parts. In...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: SolidWorks FAQ
- Topic: Multiple Config. Part fails to reload specific configuration
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1939
Re: Multiple Config. Part fails to reload specific configuration
This happens to toolbox frequently. It's not really a bug, it's kind of a feature designed into the system. It happens to toolbox when a new user who only has the default toolbox parts and hasn't built all the configurations opens an assembly and saves it. If you have multiple users and multiple ver...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Recommendations on how to model this part
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2769
Re: Recommendations on how to model this part
You can make the ramp shape with a surface and then extrude a pair of nested circles up to the surface. Or you could extrude a cylinder, make a hole in it, sweep a rectangle along a helix to make a solid cut, and then do a little extrusion on the bottom to make the flat. There are a thousand ways to...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: SW General
- Topic: Help with guide curves
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2486
Re: Help with guide curves
You're also using a path, right? Is the center of the ellipse "pierced" by the path? I don't actually have SW installed right in front of me, so I can't look at your file. The GC also needs to pierce the ellipse point. Make sure you're using the correct option "follow path and first g...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: How To Questions
- Topic: Help with Loft
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1278
Re: Help with Loft
I'd also be open to paying for some instruction on this (like on a Zoom session or something) and making it worth your while if you'd be interested in that. If you're serious about that, just go to the Surfacing Episodes site (https://episodes.dezignstuff.com/blog/) and go through all the topics li...